Requirements

1x Raspberry PI

1x Adafruit Neopixel Stick

Wiring

The wiring of the Neopixel stick is straight forward. Connect GND (any GND of the stick – it as two)to Raspberry PI GND, DIN to any PIN, in my case, PIN 18, and 5VDC to 3.3V (click image for a bigger version)

Software

To play with the Neopixels on the Raspberry PI, it’s necessary to install the Python Neopixel libraries – rpi_ws281x – provided by Jeremy Garff.